Still sick, but healed

  • Lauren Driscoll
  • 6 November 2015

A few weeks ago I had an interesting encounter with an older religious lady on our university campus. She noticed that my eyes and skin were discoloured by jaundice, and once I had explained the cause (a rare genetic condition that I’ve had from birth), she was filled with pity and told me that she would pray to her God for my healing.

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What female friendship really needs

  • Bronwyn Windsor
  • 6 March 2017

Sometimes it takes a new perspective on an old idea to get you to try reading the Bible one-to-one with a friend.

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Standing as one with the persecuted at Easter

  • Tanya Ling
  • 26 February 2018

Easter is a time of heightened persecution for many believers around the world. Many Christians who meet together do so at great risk.

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Calling to ministry

  • Tim Grant
  • 3 July 2015

Regularly when I sit down with someone, they’ll use the phrase ‘called to ministry’. I don’t have a dislike of this phrase, it can be very useful—only when most people use it, it isn’t.

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The bassinet

  • DB Ryen
  • 2 November 2020

Even though our first pregnancy had successfully produced a healthy baby boy, we unexplainably couldn’t carry a pregnancy to term anymore.

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Just do what I told you

  • Stephen Leston
  • 29 October 2013

When I was a boy, I had a weekly summer chore of mowing the lawn. My dad liked it done every Thursday. You would think that it would not be too difficult for me to get that task done—after all, I knew exactly what I needed to do and when

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Admonition or Affirmation? Do I have to choose?

  • Adrian Russell
  • 15 November 2013

These days the word love has kind of by default come to mean something like ‘affirmation’. To love someone or something necessarily means to approve every bit of them. To disagree with some aspect of their life or character means you must hate them, or be afraid of them. (Although,

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Hanging in There (ebook: .epub or Kindle .mobi files)

  • John Dickson
  • 17 February 2015

Hanging in There is a book about God, you, the Bible, prayer, church, relationships, sex, feelings, doubts, love and, above all, 'hanging in there' as a Christian. If you're a young Christian (teenager to early twenties), new to the Christian faith or a long-serving Christian who could use some encouragement this book is for you. [ebook format]

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If I were God, I'd make myself clearer

  • John Dickson
  • 16 October 2009

This book by John Dickson considers the vast array of spiritual claims made by different religions and individuals and asks whether any clarity can be found.

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Voting with your ears

  • Joe Towns
  • 15 April 2020

We are all tempted to discriminate between parts of God’s word. This could be by giving more attention to parts that we like, highlighting only what stands out to us as encouraging, or steering clear of Scripture we dislike.

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